## Security

Happeo privacy & security procedures

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## Introduction

*Happeo is a digital workplace integrated with*  
*Google’s G Suite. The goal of Happeo is to make*  
*your company more efficient and productive by*  
*solving the most common collaboration and*  
*communication barriers. We do this with data*  
*security at the core of our product and our*  
*business.*

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## CONTENTS

## Table of contents

* Your security comes first 
* What data do we collect?  
* Information from other sources

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* How do we use the collected information? 9  
* Frequently asked questions about Happeo Security 12

* Privacy policies

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**SECURITY**

# Your security comes first

**Security at core**

Happeo is developed with Google technology, 
operating on one of the world’s most secure and eliable cloud infrastructures. It is continuously 
monitored to protect your data 24/7. With Google’s 
cloud technology your data is distributed across 
multiple data centers to make sure no incident can 
affect your business.

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## Personal information

We use your personal information only for improving the content and the 
user experience of Happeo. By using our service, you agree to the 
collection and the use of information in accordance with this policy.

## General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to 
strengthen the rights that EU individuals have over their data, seeking to 
unify data protection laws across Europe. We are fully GDPR compliant 
and remain dedicated to taking care of personal data responsibly.

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**SECURITY**

# What data do we collect?

When you use Happeo, you trust us with your data. It 
is very important for us to have transparency of what 
information we collect from you and how are we 
using it to improve your user experience within 
Happeo.

## User provided information

We collect information such as your username and email address when 
you register to Happeo or communicate with our customer service team, 
and send us emails. We also collect logs in our application, which may 
include your:

• IP address, and/or

• browser information.

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When providing us this information, you consent that your information is 
being collected, used, disclosed, and stored by us, according to the 
Happeo Security Policy.

**SECURITY**

# Information from other sources

We collect data from the following sources and store 
it within our Happeo database so we can give you the 
best experience when using the Happeo service:

• Google G Suite User Directory (providing identity, improving search 
and ACL)

• Organisation information (included with the directory user)

• Directory Groups (improving search and enabling ACL)

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There is also a possibility to improve search by collecting data from old 
Google Sites text content. However, this is fully optional and off by 
default.

We collect user data because it helps to provide fast search capabilities, 
identity and better overall usability to users. The data collected can be, 
but not limited to;

• Analytics, for anonymous tracking of service used for service 
improvements

• Search queries, for organisation based predictions

## Cookies

Cookies are used to identify users. If you prevent the usage of cookies, 
Happeo may not work as intended.

## User content

Happeo allows you to post and upload information, text, graphics, and 
other material. The content posted by you is your “user content”. User 
content can be shared with others but its ownership remains with you. 
When you share something in Happeo, others may see, use, or share it.

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**SECURITY**

# How do we use the collected information?

We use the collected personal information only to:

• improve Happeo, its usability and user experience

• send system alert messaging

• enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and applicable law

• provide better customer support

• protect the rights and safety of you, our customers, users, third parties 
and our own

• meet legal requirements

• provide information to representatives and advisors

• prosecute and defend a court, arbitration, or similar proceeding

• communicate with you about your account

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• keep your information secured in the unlikely case of a sale, a merger, 
a consolidation or an acquisition

## Log file

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit 
Happeo (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as:

• IP address,

• browser type

• browser version

• Happeo pages you have visited

• time and date of your visit

• time spent in our service

• other statistics

## Security

Happeo development team has a history of handling customer and user 
data. The security policies are reviewed monthly at minimum, and 
adjusted as needed.

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## We keep our homebase secured

Our personnel, regular employees and independent contractors, 
understand and follow Happeo security policy. Upon termination of work 
at Happeo, all access to Happeo systems is removed immediately. 
Happeo is a service provided by Universe Company Oy and its affiliates. 
Universe Company Oy is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

## Infrastructure

Happeo is hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and adheres to all 
implementation best practices. A lot of questions about infrastructure 
can be answered by pointing to the Google Cloud Platform security page 
and security white paper.

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**SECURITY**

# Frequently asked questions about Happeo Security

*Does Happeo collect, store, access, handle or otherwise have access to*  
*information directly or indirectly related to customer company’s candidates,*  
*employees, client's employees or representatives?*

Yes. Happeo enables, among other things, the search of other people in 
an organisation. The data that provides the user search and user profiles 
is synchronized from G Suite. These user profiles are admin managed 
and usually synchronized from HR systems or LDAP. This data is used to 
provide a user friendly search and user profiles.

# Happeo synchronizes the following user related data from G Suite:

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## User rich profiles:

• User Google ID

• User name

• User emails

• User phone numbers

• User addresses

• User organisation profile (title, cost center, manager, address)

*Does Happeo have a documented data protection policy?*

Yes. You can see our privacy policy here.

*How is Happeo’s data protection policy implemented?*

Happeo is extremely conscious of the data it holds and who can access 
the restricted data. Only a selected few have direct access to any 
sensitive customer data in Happeo and this access is only exercised when 
supporting customers.

Personnel who have access to Happeo data go through a data protection 
training where they are educated on;

• what kind of data is accessible

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• what are the developer responsibilities

• what are our legal requirements and restrictions related to customer 
data

This training is gone through with every employee regardless if they 
have access to customer data or not, and repeated when an employee 
gains access to customer data.

*What training does Happeo provide to its employees, consultants,*  
*subcontractors, and other third party service providers who have access to*  
*Personal Data or Sensitive Data?*

Only our direct employees have access to customer data, unless there’s a 
specific need for subcontractor to gain it.

In a case where a consultant, subcontractor, or other third party service 
providers would need an access to customer data, they would go through 
the same training as Happeo direct employees.

*In case of a change in privacy law, policy or business requirement, does*  
*Happeo have a process for updating its documented data protection policy,*  
*awareness training, and contract language with consultants, subcontractors,*  
*and other third party service providers?*

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Yes. We follow all data protection policies and will comply with all laws 
and regulations. If any of the related regulations change we are obligated 
to update all related documents and educate our employees and 
subcontractors. We will also verify that our approved and selected third 
party providers comply with the given laws.

*In which countries will Happeo store, access, transmit or otherwise process*  
*customer company’s Personal Data and Sensitive Data? Which countries will*  
*provide Happeo services?*

Happeo runs on Google Cloud Platform. The data is stored and served 
from inside the EEA. Some data may be transmitted and processed 
outside the EEA, this depends on the customer’s geographical location.

*Do Happeo employees, consultants, vendors and other third party service*  
*providers know how and when to report security incidents?*

Yes. We notify our customers from any security related event or issue 
immediately we have assessed the event and verified its scope. We also 
notify law enforcement from any security related event or issue 
immediately we have assessed the event and verified its scope requires 
law enforcement.

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**SECURITY**

## Privacy policies

We respect the privacy of our customers, users and 
employees. As a business providing enterprise 
communications platforms, we need to collect, store 
and use data relating to our customers and our 
customers also use our platform for storing and 
using their own personal data, for instance relating 
to their employees. So privacy is a matter of high 
priority to us.

We are committed to processing personal data in compliance with this 
privacy policy and applicable laws. This privacy policy contains 
information about what personal data we collect, what are the key 
principles of processing the data and what rights you have relating to 
your personal data. Through our enterprise communication platforms, we 
also operate from time to time as a data processor for our customers (e.g. 
company or organization using our solution), which means that we 
process personal data based on contracts on behalf of our customers in 
accordance with their instructions. Regarding this personal data 
collection and use, we advise you to read our customers’ privacy policies 
as well.

We may do updates to this privacy policy from time to time associated 
with development of our business operations or changes in applicable 
laws, so please read visit this privacy policy from time to time.

## Data controller

The data controller relating to processing of personal data pursuant to 
this privacy policy is:

Universe Company Oy

Business ID: 2802188-2

Köydenpunojankatu 2a

00180 Helsinki, FINLAND

**www.happeo.com**

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Tel: +358 9 4242 5555
Email: **team@happeo.com**

We can refer to Universe Company Oy in this privacy policy also as 
“Happeo”, “we” or “us”. It’s our responsibility to process personal data in 
accordance with this privacy policy and applicable privacy laws.

## For what purposes is personal data collected and used and  
**what is the legal basis for processing personal data?**

We collect, store and process personal data only for predefined purposes. 
We also always make sure that there is at least one legal basis for 
processing personal data. The main purposes and the applicable legal 
basis for processing personal data are:

*To provide our services. Personal data is collected and used for managing*  
*the entire customer relationship as well as performing our obligations and*  
*invoicing the services. The legal basis for this processing is a contract*  
*between Happeo and the customer.*

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## Sales and marketing

We also collect and use personal data for marketing purposes, including 
direct marketing and contacting potential customers. We may also use 
personal data to target or retarget advertising in digital media platforms, 
such as social media and search engines. The legal basis for this 
processing is especially our legitimate interest. A person can however at 
any point prohibit direct marketing by sending email to 
info@happeo.com. We do not sell or rent personal data to third parties for 
marketing purposes.

## Customer communications

We also collect and use personal data for customer communication 
purposes, including handling of support requests and customer feedback 
as well as notifying users about the service. The legal basis for this 
processing is fulfilling contractual obligations as well as our legitimate 
interest.

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## Partner co-operation

We may transfer personal data about potential or existing customers to 
our local business partners and resellers for the purpose of handling 
contact requests as well as handling Happeo's sales, marketing, support 
and customer service locally. These partners are usually in contractual 
relationship with Happeo and bound by confidentiality obligations. As 
data controllers, they process personal data in accordance with their own 
privacy policies. Some of these partners may also locate outside the EU/
EEA. In such case we make sure that there are appropriate safeguards in 
place for the data transfer.

## Analytics and business development

We also use the personal data as well as the anonymized data generated 
from the use of our service to develop our own digital service. The legal 
basis for this processing is mainly our legitimate interest.

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## HR and recruiting

Personal data relating to employees and job applicants are mainly 
collected and used for human resources management purposes, payment 
of salaries, fulfilling other rights and obligations relating to employment 
contracts, meeting legal requirements relating to employment as well as 
evaluating and selecting candidates for open positions. The legal basis 
for this processing may be fulfilling a contract between Happeo and the 
employee, consent (job applicants) as well as fulfilling legal obligations 
relating to employment.

## What personal data is collected and from which sources?

The personal data we store relate mainly to the following groups of data 
subjects: potential and existing customers, potential and existing 
employees as well as various other roles within a customer organization, 
such as project team members and contract contact person.

The personal data we collect and use is largely provided by the person 
herself. Some data is also created and generated during the use of our 
service. For both job candidates and potential customers we also receive 
personal data from external or public sources, as we constantly search 
both new employees and also new customers. These include companies or services such as LeedFeader, Fonecta, Dista Oy, Discover.org, and 
contact lists generated by virtual assistants UpWork.

Regarding potential employees, we could also get information from 
public sources, such as LinkedIn, Monster, StackOverflow and CV boards. 
However, regarding job applicants and people we are interviewing we 
only use information provided by the applicant herself or at her consent 
from other sources, such as references.

We also collect website use and visitor information with Google Analytics 
and HubSpot for analyzing our website use, develop it further and for 
targeting relevant marketing content for our customers and website 
visitors.

## Websites

When you visit the Website, you are not required to provide any personal 
information. However, when you contact us via the chat function in the 
Website, when you sign up to receive information from us, or when you 
sign up to receive and use the Services, you are required to provide some 
Personal Information about yourself, and we may collect some 
Navigational Information, in accordance with our Cookies Policy.

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## Personal Information

“Personal Information” refers to any information that you choose to 
submit to us that identifies you personally. This includes, for example, 
your name, email address, company name, address, phone number, and 
other information about you and/or your business. This can also include 
information about you that is publicly available, information that is 
available about you online via sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and 
Google.

In addition to other uses mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we also may 
use your Personal Information to:

Improve your browsing experience by personalizing the Website;

• Send you information we think may be of interest to you by email or 
other means;

• Link the analytics information we store to Personal Information you 
submit to us; and

• Contact you for marketing purposes related to our business, which we 
think may be of interest to you.

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## Navigation Information

This refers to information about your computer, device, visits to the 
Website, and logins to the Services, including your IP address, 
geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visits, 
pages viewed, and heat mapping. We use Navigation Information to 
operate and improve the Website and Services, and may also use it to 
provide you with personalised information about Happeo Due to the 
nature of what is being collected, it is possible that Navigation 
Information may include Personal Information.

## Service Providers

The Website and Services integrate some services provided by third 
parties. We may share some of your information with these service 
providers in order for them to provide their services, including removing 
repetitive information from prospect lists, analyzing data, providing 
marketing assistance, conducting customer and/or user profiling, and 
providing customer service. As such, the terms and privacy policies of 
these service providers may apply to you as well, in particular: Google 
Analytics, Hubspot, Intercom, Perfect Audience, GoToWebinar, Google
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Optimize, Google Adwords, Google Tag Manager, Google Recaptcha, 
Hotjar, Buffer and Segment. Acceptance of these service provider terms 
is required to access the Website and Services. Further information is set 
out in our Cookies Policy.

Happeo seeks to conclude data processing agreements with each service 
provider before third party services are implemented into the Website or 
Services in order to ensure that your Personal Information is used, 
stored, and transferred securely and in accordance with European Union 
law. Even so, Happeo does not control or assume any responsibility for 
the content or practices of these service providers, including their data 
storage and transfer policies, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to 
these features, which are governed by their own policies and terms.

## External Websites

The Website and Services may contain links to other websites run by 
third parties. Our provision of these links does not amount to our 
endorsement of these other websites, nor their content, owners, or 
practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those other websites, 
which are governed by their own terms and policies. Happeo does not control or assume any responsibility for the content or practices of these 
other websites.

## Customer Testimonials & Quotes

We may publish customer testimonials and quotes on the Website, which 
may contain some Personal Information. Happeo obtains consent from 
each customer and the featured individual prior to posting their name 
and testimonial.

• Data we collect and process relating to our customers:

• Contact person’s name

• Company name

• End user profile information as provided by the customer or the user

• Work email and work phone

• Invoicing details

• Marketing opt-in’s / opt-out’s

• Email address for marketing messages

• Contact details for support issues

• Contact details for invoicing and executing contracts

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• and similar data.

## Data we collect and store relating to our employees:

• Name and contact details

• Social security number

• Email

• Details required for payment of salaries and withholding taxes

• Health data and trade union membership data only for furthering the 
legal obligations relating to employment

• Data we collect and store relating to our job applicants:

• Basic contact details

• Application and CV

• With consent data from other sources, e.g. LinkedIn, references and 
previous colleagues or supervisors

## Data entered by the users

Our customers and people within their organizations may use the 
entertainment communication platform for storing and processing personal 
data where they are considered the data controller, in these situations we 
operate as their data processor based on a contract. In these situation we 
process personal data only on behalf of the specific customer based on 
their instructions and only as long as we have a valid contract. More 
details about this processing can be found from the privacy policies our 
customers maintain. As a data controller, the customer has full control 
(and also responsibility) on what personal data it decides to enter in the 
platform and under what legal basis it has the right to process it and 
transfer to Happeo, including acquiring necessary consents, if required. 
Happeo does not review the data entered by the customer to the 
platform. For more information about under which terms Happeo 
processes its customer’s personal data, refer to Happeo DPA terms and 
conditions.

## Who processes personal data and is it transferred to anyone?

Personal data is mainly stored in electronic format and only authorized 
personnel within our organization have access to the data. The more 
sensitive the data, the less people have access to it (e.g. health data 
related to employees).

We may also use third party services providers for data storage (e.g. 
cloud storage), digital marketing, processing of payments and other 
processing of personal data. In these situations, we make sure we have a 
written contract with the services provider with minimum data processing 
provisions and also otherwise that the confidentiality of 
personal data is secured and data is otherwise processed and transferred 
lawfully. Some of these services providers include at the date of writing 
this policy, HubSpot, Google and Stripe.

We may also disclose or transfer personal data to fulfil legal obligations 
or when a legal authority requires a disclosure. We may also disclose 
personal data if we are a party of a business sale, such as a merger or an 
acquisition.

If any of our services providers or data transferees are located outside 
the EU, we make sure that the transfer of data fulfils all legal 
requirements.

We may also transfer pseudonymised or anonymised data, from where it 
is not possible to identify a person. If this kind of data is no longer 
considered personal data, we may provide the data to third parties also 
for other purposes than those described in this privacy policy.

## Is personal data transferred outside the EU?

By default, personal data is not transferred outside the EU. However, in 
varying situations data may be transferred outside the EU if our services 
provider is located there.

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If personal data is transferred outside the EU, we make sure that (1) the 
transferee is located in a country with adequate safeguards (as decided 
the EU commission from time to time), the (2) transferee is Privacy 
Shield certified (if a US-based company) or (3) the transfer occurs by 
using model clauses published by the EU commission.

## How long is data stored?

We will not store personal data for a longer period than is necessary for 
its purpose or required by contract or law. The retention periods for 
personal data may vary based on its purpose and the situation. The 
retention periods may also be based on applicable laws (e.g. accounting, 
tax laws, employment contracts act). We may also update data from time 
to time. Regarding content that our customers enter into a platform we 
have provided, it is their responsibility to plan the data retention periods.

## How is data stored and kept secure?

Personal data is stored and secured in accordance with general industry 
standards and practices. We consider and keep personal data 
confidential. Subcontractors that we use for processing personal data are 
selected also based on their data security measures. For our own systems 
and data storage, we use only well established service providers and robust 
software tools. Access to personal data is also protected with 
user-specific logins, passwords and user rights. Our premises are also 
safe and secure.

## Is it mandatory to provide personal data? What happens if you don’t provide it?

We need to collect and process some amount of personal data in order to 
provide the service and to ensure that an authorized person concludes a 
contract on behalf of our customer, to deliver and provide the agreed 
services as well as to identify the registered users of our platform. 
Relating to employment we also need to process at least the minimum 
personal data required to fulfil employment contracts and legal 
obligations relating to employment.

In recruitment situations it is not mandatory to provide us information. 
Everything happens on a voluntary basis. However, if you don’t provide 
necessary information, we may not be able to process your application.

## Does the website use cookies and what are those?

We use cookies to provide our service. If you disable cookies the service 
wont be able to function.

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We also use cookies on our website to provide the best possible user 
experience for our website visitors. Cookies are small text files that are 
placed on a web user’s computer and are designed to hold a modest 
amount of data particular to a user and a website. Cookies give us 
information how users use our website. We may use cookies to develop 
our website and services, analyze website use as well as target and 
optimize marketing efforts. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you 
may set your web browser to disable them. Please note that most 
browsers accept cookies automatically. If you disable cookies, you should 
understand that our services or our website may not function correctly.

## What rights does a person have relating to her personal data?

## Access to data

You have the right to have confirmed if we are processing your personal 
data and also to know what data we have about you. In addition, you have 
right to some supplemental information described in the law about the 
processing activities. For access requests, please contact us as instructed 
in the next section.

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## Withdraw your consent

If we process personal data based on your consent, you can at anytime 
withdraw your consent by notifying us by sending email to 
security@happeo.com.

## Right to have errors corrected

You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or outdated 
personal data we have about you.

## Right to prohibit direct marketing

You have the right to request that your personal data is not processed for 
direct marketing purposes by sending us email to security@happeo.com.

## Unsubscribe marketing communications

You may unsubscribe from receiving our marketing communications at 
any time by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link located on the bottom of 
our emails, contacting us by email at marketing@happeo.com

## Right to object processing

If we process your personal data based on public interest or our 
legitimate interest, you have the right to object processing of your data, 
to the extent that there is no such significant other reason that would 
override your rights or the processing is not necessary for handling legal 
claims. Please notice that in this situation we may not be able to serve 
you anymore.

## Right to restrict processing

In certain situations you have the right to require that we restrict 
processing of your personal data.

## Right to data portability

If we process your personal data based on your consent or fulfilling of a 
contract, you have the right to require transfer of the data you have 
provided to us to another services provider in a commonly used 
electronic format.

## How can a person use her rights?

You can execute and use your rights by contacting us by sending email to 
security@happeo.com. In such case, we ask you to provide us your name, 
contact details, phone number as well as something that we can use to 
verify your identity, such as written and signed (and scanned) request, or 
a copy of your personal ID, but without social security number and other 
such information that we don’t need. If you consider that the processing 
of your personal data is not lawful, you can always also make a 
notification to a supervisory authority (in Finland tietosuojavaltuutetun 
toimisto).

## Can this privacy policy be updated?

We may make updates to this privacy policy when our operations change 
or develop. Also changes in law may make it necessary to update this 
privacy policy. The changes become valid once we have published them 
in the form of an updated privacy policy. Therefore, please visit this page 
and read this privacy policy from time to time.

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